On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Ben Harris wrote:
> > > Nice but its not nessisary (ahum) ... you can just load your file in
> > > BASIC with "BASIC -load file" ... that loads the text file just fine and
> > > then a simple `SAVE' is enough.
> > 
> > I suspect this trick may need a BASIC that supports TEXTLOAD, which I
> > believe some old versions don't.  I, at least, want to be able to boot on
> > everything from Arthur 1.20 upwards.
> 
> Oh ok ... i thought all BASIC versions supported that ... hmm.. guess
> not! I myself owned a Archimedes A310 with Arthur 1.20 .. but i cant
> remember if it really loaded text files as BASIC ... so i guess you are
> right :)

Well, I managed to find a copy of Arthur 1.20, and it turns out that its
BASIC (version 1.02) does support loading text files.  It emits a "Program
renumbered" message, but I can cope with that.  Oh well, I'm sure I'll
find a use for bastok one day...

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>